Ugh, feeling you on Lent feeling far away this year.
Also, isn't it ironic how conservatives tote the "silence is violence" line too? It's like both sides are screaming at each other and all that emerges is a deafening silence. No one is heard.
Thank you for being willing to think through these things out loud. Something that I’ve been exploring as a measuring stick for my political engagement is the lens of God’s beauty. So many overemphasize either God’s holiness or love, justice or mercy, compassion or righteousness, when the unique beauty of God is the paradoxical combination of these attributes. I’m thinking through how I can reflect that paradox in my own political engagement and beliefs.
I highlighted so many lines, but your points 1-5 and this quote were the parts where I stood up and clapped most: "The only convincing reason for me to be fully invested in a conversation on national politics is how that topic is affecting my physical neighbor, the one I'm talking to in person."
I have always stayed away from politics, mainly because it's too overwhelming to be thoughtfully informed about *everything*. But a close-to-home attention, to people who are real to me, is a conversation I look for.
Ugh, feeling you on Lent feeling far away this year.
Also, isn't it ironic how conservatives tote the "silence is violence" line too? It's like both sides are screaming at each other and all that emerges is a deafening silence. No one is heard.
I'm desperate for God's wisdom these days
Thank you for being willing to think through these things out loud. Something that I’ve been exploring as a measuring stick for my political engagement is the lens of God’s beauty. So many overemphasize either God’s holiness or love, justice or mercy, compassion or righteousness, when the unique beauty of God is the paradoxical combination of these attributes. I’m thinking through how I can reflect that paradox in my own political engagement and beliefs.
I highlighted so many lines, but your points 1-5 and this quote were the parts where I stood up and clapped most: "The only convincing reason for me to be fully invested in a conversation on national politics is how that topic is affecting my physical neighbor, the one I'm talking to in person."
I have always stayed away from politics, mainly because it's too overwhelming to be thoughtfully informed about *everything*. But a close-to-home attention, to people who are real to me, is a conversation I look for.
Thanks for tethering me with this letter.
I love these letters =)